Sentences with phrase «called aneuploidy»

Errors in chromosome segregation are a major cause for birth defects and embryonic lethality in humans, and the most common genetic alteration in human tumors is aberrant chromosome numbers, called aneuploidy.

Those differences were due to a distinct genetic change called aneuploidy, or having more than the normal number of DNA - packaging chromosomes.

Around 75 per cent of miscarriages are thought to be caused by an embryo having the wrong number of chromosomes — a condition called aneuploidy.

Sexual reproduction can result in a condition called aneuploidy, in which the offspring have extra copies of certain chromosomes.

In 1914 Boveri observed that sea urchin embryos with abnormal amounts of chromosomal material, a condition called aneuploidy, looked cancerous.

Today in the journal Cancer Cell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Fellow Jason Sheltzer, Ph.D., and colleagues at CSHL and MIT report surprising results of experiments intended to explore the consequences of having too many or too few chromosomes, a phenomenon that biologists call aneuploidy (AN - you - ploid - ee).

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Until now, one of the only ways of screening eggs or embryos for aneuploidy was to use a technique called fluorescence in - situ hybridisation (FISH), in which specific chromosomes are stained with small pieces of fluorescent DNA to...

Down Syndrome belongs to the group of conditions called «aneuploidies», defined by an abnormal loss or gain of genetic material, i.e. fragments of chromosomes or whole chromosomes.

The method provides quantitative aneuploidy calls, and is integrated into an R software package available on GitHub and as an Additional file of this manuscript.